The women of the Malanti Garden of Skills in Eswatini have begun replanting their growing beds with young spinach plants from their own nursery. To ensure the best possible conditions for these new plants, they have weeded the beds and … Read More
At Malanti’s Garden of Skills, the women have just harvested the cabbages planted during the southern winter, which are now perfectly ripe. This harvest marks the culmination of several months of careful work, from the nursery to the care given … Read More
At Malanti’s Garden of Skills in Eswatini, spring is the ideal time to propagate sweet potatoes. The women in charge of the vegetable garden set to work transplanting cuttings taken from existing plants, a simple and effective technique for multiplying … Read More
A new activity has been launched in the sewing workshop at Malanti’s ‘Garden of Skills’ in Eswatini.Designing Hope has entrusted the local seamstresses with the task of making fabric memory games, entirely by hand. Each piece of the game is … Read More
The five women in charge of vegetable production are currently preparing the nursery for the coming spring in southern Africa. They are working the soil, selecting the seeds and starting the first sowings. At the same time, they are continuing … Read More
Thanks to the fund-raising campaign launched a few months ago by Designing Hope, the women of the Garden of Skills were able to produce uniforms in their workshop for the neighbouring schools in Malanti. Each child received a tunic or … Read More
The vegetable garden team set about enlarging the beds to increase their yield. The large grassy areas on either side of the rows of beds have been reduced, providing a 40% gain in cultivable area. These beds, located close to … Read More
The Garden of Skills greenhouse provides a protected space for growing crops, complementing the nursery area.
Every day, the four women in charge of the Garden of Skills vegetable garden maintain the crops grown on this one-hectare plot of land. Transplanting, weeding, watering, hoeing, sowing… the tasks are many and varied, so as to make the … Read More
In order to have a vegetable garden full of vegetables throughout the seasons, it’s crucial to have a well-organized nursery that regularly produces the plants needed to line the garden beds, in addition to the species planted directly in the … Read More
